Touring Bohol – The creatures
The churches and Chocolate Hills were great and all, but let’s be honest–there’s not much that can compete against two inch tall monkeys. I was super excited to see the little Bohol tarsiers from the second we started planning the trip. I have an affection for strange, small creatures and our tour was filled with […]
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Touring Bohol – The Sights
There were a lot of things we wanted to see in Bohol and the resort was pretty removed from anything else so we decided to book a tour through the hotel. Our tour guide, Gigi, was excellent and we got to see a lot of interesting sights with her around the island. There was so much […]
Mall and Taal
After our stressful time getting from Alaminos to Manila we decided to take it easy for a few days. Our first day back in Manila we decided to go check out the SM Mall of Asia. It’s a huge mall that has a ton of stores, an indoor ice rink, ferris wheel, fireworks on the […]
Homemade Soy Milk
When we went to Colorado for Christmas my parents had homemade soy milk. It tasted just like soy milk from a Singaporean hawker stall and I decided I had to have it again once we returned to Seattle. It’s not all that hard to make actually. It’s way cheaper than store bought soy milk too. […]
Hundred Islands National Park
We wished we had stayed longer in San Quintin, but early the next morning we set out for the Hundred Islands National Park. One of the branch members took us on his tryke to catch a bus heading to Dagupan. From there we took another bus to Alaminos and one more tryke to Lucap, […]
Baguio!
Because of our hotel fiasco our plans in Baguio got a bit turned around. We didn’t get to see everything we had planned to, but we still saw a lot of fun things. Baguio is where Jon’s mission office used to be so he was pretty familiar with the area. Baguio is located up in […]
Better than sleeping on the street…maybe
After we visited the historical sites in Manila and visited with one of Jon’s mission companions we headed out for Baguio. We left from the Victory Liner depot in Pasay; by the time we arrived it was late afternoon already and was starting to get dark. The bus depot was filled with seats […]
Corregidor Island
Our first adventure after arriving in Manila was to Corregidor, a tadpole shaped island about an hour from Manila by boat. The island is placed at the mouth of Manila Bay, making it a strategic military strong hold that’s been conquered and controlled by the Filipinos, Spanish, US and Japanese over the years. The island […]
We’re still alive!
Jon and I were writing our family history for a family reunion and noticed that our blog is extremely out of date. Sorry for the lack of updates once again! We’ve been busy busy busy working away, but do have some updates for what’s been happening in the past few months. Church After our move […]
Summer 2011
It was raining dogs and cats today so I guess that means one thing: Summer is officially over and our Northwest Autumn weather has returned :(. We had a pretty eventful summer this year! Main highlights: 1) We took a big Chau family vacation to Florida 2) Jon got his hands on a $99 HP […]